Tag: tugs

On Sunday, oil tanker Seavigour broke down in a single-lane section of Suez Canal, causing a brief disruption on the global waterway.

ABS today announced it has joined an elite working group comprised of global maritime leaders to study onboard carbon capture technologies.

Kongsberg Maritime has won a contract to provide the design and equipment for two salvage tugs being built by Alexandria Shipyard as main contractor on behalf of the Suez Canal Authority. 

Damen Shipyards and Boluda Towage announced that they have joined forces to bring zero-emissions tugs to Europe.

Russia has seized four tugboats belonging to a subsidiary of Danish shipping giant Maersk in Russia's far east, which ceased operations in the country after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

US Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston command center watchstanders received a notification on February 6, from the tugboat Smith Invader, stating a crew member was last seen on February 5, and was noticed missing after a crew boat was supposed to transfer him off the vessel.

The US Coast Guard is responding to a tug boat that ran aground near the South Texas Gateway refinery in Corpus Christi, on January 23.

The rudder failure of Dutch anchor-handling tug supply unit temporarily halted transits in the Bosphorus Strait, on January 21.

HaiSea Marine’s first of 2 dual-fuel escort (LNG & diesel) tugs has been launched at Sanmar Shipyards. At 40m in length and with 100 tonnes of bollard pull, the escort tugs will arrive in British Columbia later this year.

On January 14, the U.S. Coast Guard saved seven crewmembers from a drifting tug about 30 miles off the coast of Ocean City, New Jersey.